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Creator: Native American Art
Native American Pueblo Painted Drum
By Native American Art
Located in Coeur d'Alene, ID
Native American Pueblo painted drum. Classic and colorful cottonwood drum with rawhide skin sides painted red, white and blue.
Period: Mid 20th century
Origin: Southwest, Cochiti
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Category
Mid-20th Century American Native American Native American Art Native American Objects
Materials
Wood
Inuit Lidded Basket
By Native American Art
Located in Coeur d'Alene, ID
Alaskan Inuit lidded basket of fine weave with top knot. Tapered from bottom to shoulder and then to top. Featuring geometric designs running diagonally up the piece in colors of red...
Category
Mid-20th Century American Native American Native American Art Native American Objects
Materials
Natural Fiber
Northwest Coast Totem
By Native American Art
Located in Coeur d'Alene, ID
Northwest Coast polychrome totem with multiple bird figures atop a turtle. Hole drilled for clamp. Well painted and carved with bright colors of red, black, blue, white, and brown on...
Category
Early 20th Century American Native American Native American Art Native American Objects
Materials
Wood, Paint
$4,025
Feathered Pomo Basket
By Native American Art
Located in Coeur d'Alene, ID
Pomo bowl with geometric flower design on bottom and sides. Shell beads and quill fobs. Late 19th century. Sie: 3 3/4" x 7 1/2"
Under the name Pomo are some 30 small tribes. The tri...
Category
Late 19th Century American Native American Antique Native American Art Native American Objects
Materials
Shell, Willow, Feathers
$6,325
Aleut Open Weave Basket
By Native American Art
Located in Coeur d'Alene, ID
Native American Aleut basket. Finely woven basket with tight weaving in center and beautiful embroidered pink/rose floral design. Top and bottom are a loose, open weave. Exceptional ...
Category
19th Century American Native American Antique Native American Art Native American Objects
Materials
Natural Fiber
Alaskan Lidded Basket
By Native American Art
Located in Coeur d'Alene, ID
Native American Alaskan lidded basket. Featuring geometric butterfly and checkerboard designs around body in lid done in purple and red. Great piece for display or careful continued ...
Category
Mid-20th Century American Native American Native American Art Native American Objects
Materials
Natural Fiber
Small Beaded Washoe Basket
By Native American Art
Located in Coeur d'Alene, ID
Fully beaded single rod Washoe basket with vibrant colors of blue, yellow and orange inside and out.
Period: circa 1900-1920
Origin: Washoe
Size: 2 1/2"...
Category
1910s American Native American Vintage Native American Art Native American Objects
Materials
Beads
Hupa/Yurok Hat Basket
By Native American Art
Located in Coeur d'Alene, ID
Hupa/Yurok polychrome basketry hat with imbricated dark brown banded stripe and red geometric motifs, band below rim and at base. 3.875" H x 6.25"D. Circa 1900.
Family Owned & Oper...
Category
Early 20th Century American Native American Native American Art Native American Objects
Materials
Natural Fiber
$2,530
Antique Hopi HeHeya Clown Kachina Doll with Watermelon, circa 1900–1925
By Native American Art
Located in Denver, CO
This rare antique Hopi HeHeya Clown Kachina doll, carved in the first quarter of the 20th century, is an exceptional example of traditional Hopi spiritual...
Category
Early 20th Century American Native American Native American Art Native American Objects
Materials
Wood
Circa 1880 Southern Cheyenne Beaded Moccasins with Tipi Motifs, Plains Indian
By Native American Art
Located in Denver, CO
This exceptional pair of 19th-century Southern Cheyenne beaded moccasins, dating circa 1880, is a rare and authentic example of Plains Native American ...
Category
1880s American Native American Antique Native American Art Native American Objects
Materials
Hide, Beads
Alaskan Lidded Basket
By Native American Art
Located in Coeur d'Alene, ID
Alaskan lidded basket. Some missing imbricated on lid. Geometric designs on body and lid with braided loop handle. Beautiful and functional piece, great for display or careful contin...
Category
Early 20th Century American Native American Native American Art Native American Objects
Materials
Natural Fiber
$1,035
Inuit Indigenous Native American Eskimo Signed Stone Carved Walrus Sculpture
By Native American Art
Located in Studio City, CA
A wonderful soapstone carving of a walrus by the indigenous Inuit People who inhabit parts of the arctic regions of Greenland, Canada, and Alaska.
Signed ("E.Y.") and numbered/dat...
Category
Mid-20th Century Canadian Native American Native American Art Native American Objects
Materials
Soapstone
Antique Papago Native American Indian Coiled Pine Needle Basket
By Native American Art
Located in San Diego, CA
Wonderful antique hand made Papago Native American Indian pine needle coil basket. Great form and design. In excellent original condition. Tightly woven and color is great. Measures:...
Category
Early 20th Century North American Native American Art Native American Objects
Materials
Natural Fiber
$480 Sale Price
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Eskimo Lidded Basket
By Native American Art
Located in Coeur d'Alene, ID
Alaskan Eskimo lidded basket with top knot of very fine weave. Tapered from bottom. Featuring semi-faded colored geometric designs on body. Great for display or careful continued use...
Category
Mid-20th Century American Native American Native American Art Native American Objects
Materials
Natural Fiber
Native American Navajo Handwoven Wool Geometric Rug Mat
By Native American Art
Located in Studio City, CA
A nicely woven wool mat/rug in a geometric pattern which the Navajo tribe is famed for. In fantastic vintage condition. Originally acquired some years ago and placed in storage for good keeping. From a large collection of Native American artifacts...
Category
20th Century American Native American Native American Art Native American Objects
Materials
Wool
Native Nootka Totem by Rick Williams, 2 Foot
By Native American Art
Located in Coeur d'Alene, ID
Rick Williams (Nootka / Nuu-chah-nulth, b. 1955). 2 Foot Red Cedar Seattle Pole" painted wood sculpture hand carved by Rick Williams and signed with titl...
Category
20th Century Canadian Native American Native American Art Native American Objects
Materials
Cedar
Grey Wolf Kachina Doll Hand Carved Signed by Artist
By Native American Art
Located in Studio City, CA
A wonderfully detailed and decorated wolf figure Kachina doll with fur.
Signed by the artist on the base.
From a collection of Native American objects an...
Category
20th Century American Native American Native American Art Native American Objects
Materials
Fur, Leather, Wood, Paint
Prehistoric Casas Grandes Jar
By Native American Art
Located in Coeur d'Alene, ID
Pre-Columbian, Northern Mexico, Casas Grandes, ca. 1100 to 1200 CE. A delightful coil-made and hand-painted pottery vessel of figural form, all enveloped in beige slip beneath red an...
Category
15th Century and Earlier American Native American Antique Native American Art Native American Objects
Materials
Ceramic
19th Century Cheyenne Leggings
By Native American Art
Located in Coeur d'Alene, ID
Cheyenne pictorial leggings with horseshoes (horse stealing). Brain tanned deer skin, yellow ochre and green with red ochre on reverse. Older bead shirt strips sinew sewn and moved o...
Category
Late 19th Century American Native American Antique Native American Art Native American Objects
Materials
Hide, Beads
Native American Navajo Geometric Optical Handwoven Rug Blanket
By Native American Art
Located in Studio City, CA
Beautiful coloring and geometric patterns for which the Navajo tribe is famed. In fantastic vintage condition. Originally acquired some 50-60 years ago and placed in storage for good keeping. Ingeniously clever design. The pattern changes when viewed horizontally and then vertically. From a large collection of Native American artifacts...
Category
Mid-20th Century American Native American Native American Art Native American Objects
Materials
Wool
Pomo Basket
By Native American Art
Located in Coeur d'Alene, ID
Pomo single rod basket with quail fob motif. Exceptional golden patina. 6" x 15". Under the name Pomo are some 30 small tribes. The tribes which made these baskets live in Lake Sonom...
Category
Late 19th Century American Native American Antique Native American Art Native American Objects
Materials
Willow
$10,350
1880s Potawatomi Moccasins, Plains Leather, Northeast Woodlands, Beaded
By Native American Art
Located in Denver, CO
This rare and well preserved pair of circa 1880 Potawatomi moccasins is an exceptional example of 19th-century Northeast Woodlands Native American craftsmanship. Hand-stitched from n...
Category
Late 19th Century American Native American Antique Native American Art Native American Objects
Materials
Animal Skin, Hide, Leather, Beads
Native American Imbricated Klickitat Basket
By Native American Art
Located in Coeur d'Alene, ID
Polychrome Klickitat basket by Sophie Thomas, a prominent elder and healer of the Carrier Nation, and the aunt of Neddi Jackson. From the personal col...
Category
Early 20th Century American Native American Native American Art Native American Objects
Materials
Natural Fiber
Casas Grandes Pottery Olla
By Native American Art
Located in Coeur d'Alene, ID
Prehistoric Casas Grandes pottery olla. Hand coiled and painted polychrome design. Restored. Two strap holes. Four geomorphic faces. Rim crack through one hole. Ex. Barnard. 6"D x 7"...
Category
15th Century and Earlier American Native American Antique Native American Art Native American Objects
Materials
Pottery
Alaskan Lidded Basket
By Native American Art
Located in Coeur d'Alene, ID
Alaskan lidded globular basket with knob handle. Featuring multi-colored geometric checkerboard designs around body and lid. Beautiful piece, great for display or careful continued u...
Category
Early 20th Century American Native American Native American Art Native American Objects
Materials
Natural Fiber
Papago Basketry Bowl
By Native American Art
Located in Coeur d'Alene, ID
Papago basketry bowl with geometric designs. Simple, but highly displayable. Would complement a handmade indigenous basketry collection or decor of a Southwestern style home. Circa 1...
Category
Early 20th Century American Native American Native American Art Native American Objects
Materials
Natural Fiber
Pair Papago Basketry Dolls
By Native American Art
Located in Coeur d'Alene, ID
Pair of Papago basketry dolls of coiled pine needles. Male and female set, polychrome. Female doll has braids and a hat, male has short hair and a tie. Very well made and highly disp...
Category
Mid-20th Century American Native American Native American Art Native American Objects
Materials
Natural Fiber
Papago Basketry Owl
By Native American Art
Located in Coeur d'Alene, ID
Papago hand woven basketry owl. Head comes off as lid. 9 1/2"H x 6 1/4"W. Attractive and well-made piece that would display nicely in a handmade indigenous basketry collection or Sou...
Category
Mid-20th Century American Native American Native American Art Native American Objects
Materials
Natural Fiber
Papago Pictorial Basket
By Native American Art
Located in Coeur d'Alene, ID
Native American Papago pictorial basket. Featuring four "gunfighter" pictorials around body with geometric designs around rim. Nice shape and size, well woven. Great for display in a...
Category
Mid-20th Century American Native American Native American Art Native American Objects
Materials
Natural Fiber
$1,380
Crow Plains Native American Beaded Leather Cuffs, Bar Design, 20th Century
By Native American Art
Located in Denver, CO
Exceptional pair of late 19th-century Northern Plains Native American wrist cuffs, attributed to the Crow (Apsáalooke) people. Also known as gauntlet cuffs, these pieces are crafted ...
Category
Late 19th Century American Native American Antique Native American Art Native American Objects
Materials
Tin
Native American Pueblo Pictorial Drum
By Native American Art
Located in Coeur d'Alene, ID
Native American Pueblo Indian pictorial drum of cottonwood log with rawhide. One side having horse and rider hunting buffalo with teepees in the background. The reverse with a Native...
Category
Mid-20th Century American Native American Native American Art Native American Objects
Materials
Hide, Wood
Prehistoric Casas Grandes Pottery Fish
By Native American Art
Located in Coeur d'Alene, ID
Pre-Columbian, Northern Mexico, Chihuahua, Mogollon culture, Casas Grandes or Paquime, ca. 1130 to 1450 CE. A charming pottery vessel in the form of a fish featuring a bulbous body w...
Category
15th Century and Earlier American Native American Antique Native American Art Native American Objects
Materials
Ceramic
Simon Charlie 9 Foot "Pole of Wealth" TOTEM
By Native American Art
Located in Coeur d'Alene, ID
Simon Charlie "pole of wealth". Carved in Duncan, BC 1958 for Patrick Pryor who is in the timber business. Compared to the "pole of wealth" in Duncan, BC, you will see Simon's fingerprints. The adzed marks on the bear are identical to this totem. Also, the happy and sad faces are almost identical including their orientation left and right. This pole was carved by Simon in 1988. He used happy and sad faces in some of his work to notate good times and bad times. 9'2"H x 20" at base. Charlie was trained by famous Kwakwaka'wakw totem artist Henry Hunt, at the Provincial Museum of British Columbia, but though as Hunt he carved Totem poles, which was not traditionally used by the Coast Salish...
Category
Mid-20th Century American Native American Native American Art Native American Objects
Materials
Wood
Indigenous Native American Indian Navajo Handwoven Geometric Pattern Rug Blanket
By Native American Art
Located in Studio City, CA
A wonderful, highly engaging, intricately hand woven antique Indigenous Native North American Indian Southwestern Navajo tribe wool rug/blanket featuring a geometric pattern (the Nav...
Category
Mid-20th Century American Native American Native American Art Native American Objects
Materials
Wool
Native American Coushatta Lidded Pine Needle Basket
By Native American Art
Located in Coeur d'Alene, ID
Coushatta lidded pine needle basket with pine cone and needle décor two sides and top. This woven by L.C. John, the last of the great Coushatta basket...
Category
Late 20th Century American Native American Native American Art Native American Objects
Materials
Other
Multi-Figure 7 Foot Nuu-chah-nulth TOTEM
By Native American Art
Located in Coeur d'Alene, ID
This large pole was “donated to a church on the northern tip of Vancouver Island for a fundraiser” sometime around 1905. The pole is carved in a folk-art style that is correct for the period. The imagery on this pole is quite fascinating and includes a large bird whose wings form the face of a composite creature holding what appears to be a whale or fish. Below that is what appears to be a Sisiutl, or three-headed sea serpent. Under the Sisiutl is a pair of animal heads flanking the pole, perhaps wolves, over a colonial bald eagle. This pole is a large and early Nuu-chah-nulth totem carving...
Category
Early 1900s American Native American Antique Native American Art Native American Objects
Materials
Cedar
Ditidaht/Nuu-chah-nulth Totem by Raymond Williams
By Native American Art
Located in Coeur d'Alene, ID
(1933-1988) This finely crafted wood totem pole is by Ditidaht/Nuu-Chah-Nulth master carver Raymond Williams, the father of the current generation of William's carvers. The carved totem pole features and eagle, frog, and an orca. Signed on back. Also marked "hand carved Indian made from the Ye Olde Curiosity Shoppe, Seattle, WA 1899." 19"H x 5"
Raymond Williams was the son of Sam Williams...
Category
1950s Canadian Native American Vintage Native American Art Native American Objects
Materials
Cedar
Maidu Cone Burden Basket
By Native American Art
Located in Coeur d'Alene, ID
Maidu California twined cone burden basket. Good original condition. With hourglass geometric shapes around body. Beautiful piece for display in a Southwestern style home. Early 20th...
Category
Early 20th Century American Native American Native American Art Native American Objects
Materials
Natural Fiber
$2,300
Alaskan Eskimo Lidded Basket
By Native American Art
Located in Coeur d'Alene, ID
Lidded Alaskan Eskimo globular basket. Made of coiled beach grass, with geometric checkerboard and diamond designs. Beautiful piece, great for display or careful continued use. Early...
Category
Early 20th Century American Native American Native American Art Native American Objects
Materials
Natural Fiber
Tsimshian Lidded Basket
By Native American Art
Located in Coeur d'Alene, ID
Tsimishian lidded basket. With dark brown base color and geometric zig-zag design created in lighter natural fiber. Finely woven. Beautiful piece for display or careful continued use...
Category
20th Century American Native American Native American Art Native American Objects
Materials
Natural Fiber
Eskimo Lidded Basket
By Native American Art
Located in Coeur d'Alene, ID
Alaskan Eskimo lidded basket of fine weave with top knot. Tapered to shoulder and then to top. Featuring polychrome geometric designs around body and lid. Beautiful piece, great for ...
Category
Mid-20th Century American Native American Native American Art Native American Objects
Materials
Natural Fiber
Alaskan Basketry Jar
By Native American Art
Located in Coeur d'Alene, ID
Alaskan lidded basketry polychrome jar with knob on lid. Featuring tree and bird design around body. Extremely finely woven. Beautiful piece, great for display or careful continued u...
Category
Early 20th Century American Native American Native American Art Native American Objects
Materials
Natural Fiber
Alaskan Lidded Basket
By Native American Art
Located in Coeur d'Alene, ID
Native American Alaskan lidded basket. With simple geometric checkerboard design on body and lid. Finely woven. Great for display or careful continued use. First half 20th century. S...
Category
Early 20th Century American Native American Native American Art Native American Objects
Materials
Natural Fiber
$1,035
Tsimishian Lidded Basket
By Native American Art
Located in Coeur d'Alene, ID
Native American Tsimshian lidded basket. Fine weave with geometric pictorial designs around body in colors of brown and yellow. Circular design around lid. Beautiful piece, great for...
Category
20th Century American Native American Native American Art Native American Objects
Materials
Natural Fiber
Kwahu Eagle Kachina Terracotta Totem 78 Inches Tall
By Native American Art
Located in Coeur d'Alene, ID
Hopi Kwahu eagle katsina totem. Hand-molded terracotta painted with feathers, turquoise jewelry, beads, shells and other mixed media. Hospoa ro...
Category
Mid-20th Century American Native American Native American Art Native American Objects
Materials
Wood
Pair of Papago Platters
By Native American Art
Located in Coeur d'Alene, ID
Pair of Papago platters. Mid 20th Century. Figurative Papago with birds 9 1/2" x 2" and 11" x 1 1/2". Papago baskets are handcrafted of beargrass, yucca cactus (white or green) and D...
Category
Mid-20th Century American Native American Native American Art Native American Objects
Materials
Natural Fiber
Papago Miniature Baskets
By Native American Art
Located in Coeur d'Alene, ID
Six Papago miniature baskets. Two with owls. Five of yucca and one of pine needle. Papago baskets are handcrafted of beargrass, yucca cactus (white or green) and Devil’s Claw (black)...
Category
Mid-20th Century American Native American Native American Art Native American Objects
Materials
Natural Fiber
Pair of Papago Basketry Dolls
By Native American Art
Located in Coeur d'Alene, ID
Pair of Papago basketry dolls. Male and female, both with hats (one not photographed). With original sales tag “Arizona. Made by Sally Lopez at Santa Rosa Valley.” Ex. Dunning. Papag...
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Mid-20th Century American Native American Native American Art Native American Objects
Materials
Natural Fiber
Miniature Papago Horsehair Plaques
By Native American Art
Located in Coeur d'Alene, ID
Miniature horsehair Papago plaques. Exceptionally fine weave. Featuring polychrome pictorials and geometrics. Tohono O'odham; Arizona. Attributed to accompanying card: Adeline Manuel...
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Early 20th Century American Native American Native American Art Native American Objects
Materials
Natural Fiber
Polychrome Papogo Basket
By Native American Art
Located in Coeur d'Alene, ID
Polychrome Papago basket. Having six large eagles around body of basket with chevron designs interspersed. 15" x 18". Estimate 1930's. Note bottom and rim wear from use as a wastebas...
Category
Early 20th Century American Native American Native American Art Native American Objects
Materials
Natural Fiber
$6,900
Hupa/Yurok Hat Basket
By Native American Art
Located in Coeur d'Alene, ID
Hupa/Yurok basketry hat with imbricated dark and light brown banded stripe and geometric motifs. 3.75" H x 6.125"D.
Family Owned & Operated
Cisco’s Gallery deals in the rare, except...
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Early 20th Century American Native American Native American Art Native American Objects
Materials
Natural Fiber
$2,530
Native American Chippewa Catlinite T-Pipe
By Native American Art
Located in Coeur d'Alene, ID
19th century Chippewa pipe with weeping hearts. Long stem Chippewa T-pipe with file burnt stem and steatite bowl having red Catlinite weeping hearts and pewter inlay. The bowl is squ...
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Mid-19th Century American Native American Antique Native American Art Native American Objects
Materials
Other
Casas Grandes Pottery Effigy Vessel
By Native American Art
Located in Coeur d'Alene, ID
Ramos polychrome style pottery effigy vessel in the form of a human with a bulbous body, anthropomorphic head, low relief eyes, nose and slit mouth. Precisely painted surface with fi...
Category
15th Century and Earlier American Native American Antique Native American Art Native American Objects
Materials
Ceramic
Pueblo Painted Drum
By Native American Art
Located in Coeur d'Alene, ID
Native American Pueblo painted drum. Black hide on tops and bottom with faded coloring on sides and lattice woven hide straps securing drum top and bottom together. Carved out of a cottonwood tree...
Category
Late 19th Century American Native American Antique Native American Art Native American Objects
Materials
Hide, Wood
$4,025
Pair of Nuu-Chah-Nulth Model Totems
By Native American Art
Located in Coeur d'Alene, ID
This matched pair of Nuu-chah-nulth model poles each feature thunderbirds, wolves, lightning snakes and eagles. The poles are nearly identical and vary only in minute details and color choices. The thunderbirds...
Category
1920s Canadian Native American Vintage Native American Art Native American Objects
Materials
Cedar
$8,800 / set
Hopi Mudheads and Kacharis Red Ribbon Prize
By Native American Art
Located in Coeur d'Alene, ID
Mudhead and Kacharis by Lomayo Kanaya Hopi, second prize, Gallup Intertribal Indian Ceremonial 2005. Three Kacharis in balloon basket with mudhead ballo...
Category
Early 2000s American Native American Native American Art Native American Objects
Materials
Pottery
Ute Sheep Horn Spoon, circa 1870
By Native American Art
Located in Coeur d'Alene, ID
Ute sheep horn spoon with old tag “Ute, Pine River, Battle, Ex. Cottchall Collection. Collected 1870.” Brain tanned with blue and white beading on top.
Per...
Category
Late 19th Century American Native American Antique Native American Art Native American Objects
Materials
Horn
Native American Coushatta Lidded Pine Needle Basket
By Native American Art
Located in Coeur d'Alene, ID
Coushatta lidded pine needle basket with pine cone and needle décor two sides and top. This woven by L.C. John, the last of the great Coushatta basket...
Category
Late 20th Century American Native American Native American Art Native American Objects
Materials
Other
Pair of Nuu-chah-nulth Model Totems
By Native American Art
Located in Coeur d'Alene, ID
This pair of colorful larger Nuu-chah-nulth model totem poles were likely made for a curio shop in Seattle or Victoria sometime around 1915. The poles...
Category
1910s Canadian Native American Vintage Native American Art Native American Objects
Materials
Cedar
$9,900 / set
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- 1stDibs ExpertApril 5, 2022Native American slippers are called moccasins. Moccasins are characterized by their U-shaped puckered toe design and are crafted with various leathers such as sheepskin or buffalo. They may or may not be decorated with beading. Shop a collection of authentic moccasins from some of the world’s top sellers on 1stDibs.
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- 1stDibs ExpertOctober 30, 2024Yes, some Native American jewelry is worth something. As with other types of jewelry, many pieces are made of fine materials, such as sterling silver, turquoise, jasper and lapis lazuli. Jewelry produced by Native American artists may also have value based on its age, style, type and other factors. Find a large selection of Native American jewelry on 1stDibs.
- 1stDibs ExpertApril 5, 2022To tell if Native American jewelry is real, have it evaluated by a licensed and experienced appraiser. Because every tribe has its own designs and identifying characteristics, it is usually not possible to determine authenticity using only online resources. Find a collection of expertly vetted Native American jewelry on 1stDibs.
- 1stDibs ExpertMay 5, 2023A number of Native American tribes are known for pottery, including the Cheyenne, Cherokees, Hopi, Iroquois, Navajo Pueblo and Shoshone. Artisans from each indigenous group have their own style. For example, Hopi pottery is often a red-brown color and decorated with black designs, while Navajo pottery is deeper brown and usually has a high-gloss finish. Find a selection of Native American pottery on 1stDibs.
- 1stDibs ExpertApril 5, 2022Northwest Coast native art describes works of art produced by indigenous people who live along the Northwest Coast of the U.S. and Canada. Some tribes who inhabit the region include the Haida, Heiltsuk, Kwakwaka'wakw, Nuu-chah-nulth, Nuxalk, Tlingit and Tsimshian. On 1stDibs, find a collection of Northwest Coast native art.
- 1stDibs ExpertApril 5, 2022The two types of Native American beadwork are called the “lazy stitch” or “lane stitch” and the “tack stitch” or “flat stitch”. You can shop a collection of Native American beadwork from some of the world’s top boutiques on 1stDibs.
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